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I don't know if AMD intended to mock Intel when they named new Athlon Gold and Silver which are on lower end, meanwhile Intel named Xeon Gold & Silver on the hi
by a012 6y ago
I don't know if AMD intended to mock Intel when they named new Athlon Gold and Silver which are on lower end, meanwhile Intel named Xeon Gold & Silver on the higher end.
- katmannthree 6y agoI think it's competing with the Pentium Gold and Silver branding which are more or less in the same budget market.
- a012 6y agoYeah, I forgot Intel also has Pentium Gold & Silver, IIRC Intel just rebranded Celeron?
- nolok 6y agoCeleron still exists somehow. It "reigns" in the ~200 integrated pc area and cheap laptops.
- aquaticsunset 6y agoYep - my little two bay, pre-built NAS has a Celeron in it. I suspect this is the market they're targeting.
- nolok 6y agoI don't think so, low end Intel above Atom but before i3 is still named Celeron and Pentium, and the Pentium Gold is a well known "brand" in that area.
- Zenst 6y agoMaybe and ironic given the history. Intel got upset about clone x86 CPU's using comparable numbering systems. Reason being 286,386,486 are just numbers and they couldn't trademark numbers. Hence the brand name pentium was born as a way to stop the alternative x86 cpu's capitalising upon what Intel deemed a brand and at the time, it was. Gold and Silver are a bit like numbers, can't be trademark protected and with that, history repeats in many ways and with all that in mind, this is funny for me.